This poem was created with the words “Button Button” by Richard Mathewson .In the story, the protagonist Norma faces internal conflicts with herself as the antagonist. Norma and her husband Arthur are a not so fortunate married couple dealing with financial hardships that affect their relationship. Out of nowhere, they are visited by a mysterious man who brings them a box with a single button on top. They were told that by pressing the button, somebody they did not know would die, and they would receive 50,000. Norma faces a challenge of controlling her own temptation to press the button and take the reward. We can see that Norma shows a desire for materialistic things. For instance, one quote that shows the conflict of Norma and her materialistic desire is, “The point is,” Norma broke in, “if it’s someone you’ve never seen in your life and never will see, someone whose death you don’t even have to know about, you still wouldn’t push the button?” Arthur stared at her, appalled. “You mean you would?” “Fifty thousand dollars, Arthur.”. This quote proves that Norma is trying to convince herself and Arthur that pushing the button is not so bad. My poem shows the concept of Normas love for money. It talks about her constant thoughts about the money, wanting to believe it was not dirty money. I tried to show Norma’s urge to press the button because of her greed by putting a picture of a frog behind my poem. The frog symbolizes greed because they want to live in the water and the land.
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